Valentine's Day Message
Love and Sex God’s Way
Illustration: Story of the Eskimo Wolf Hunting Technique
First, the Eskimo coats his knife blade with animal blood and allows it to freeze. Then he adds another layer of blood, and another, until the blade is completely concealed by frozen blood. Next, the hunter fixes his knife in the ground with the blade up. When a wolf follows his sensitive nose to the source of the scent and discovers the bait, he licks it, tasting the fresh frozen blood. He begins to lick faster, more and more vigorously, lapping the blade until the keen edge is bare. Feverishly now, harder and harder the wolf licks the blade in the arctic night. So great becomes his craving for blood that the wolf does not notice the razor-sharp sting of the naked blade on his own tongue, nor does he recognize the instant at which his insatiable thirst is being satisfied by his OWN warm blood. His carnivorous appetite just craves more—until the dawn finds him dead in the snow!
Often we are just like the wolf. We find something that taste so good that we cant stop licking it.
Love and Sex starts at the very Beginning, Genesis is the book of beginnings
Genesis 2:24-25 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
God created men and woman to leave and cleave.
He also created them pure and without shame, guilt. They could enjoy each other, marry and experience love and sex without shame.
Love and Sex was designed by God to for mankind to experience oneness. But anything outside of his definition and contradicts his intent is sinful.
Lest we become confused the following things are always sinful: homosexuality, bestiality, fornication, rape, bi-sexuality, pologamy,incest, prostitution.
The following are sinful outside of marriage: sex, masturbating each other,phone sex, petting, oral sex, online or texting sexual materials
When our ancestors sinned they became separated from God and from each other and they hid themselves in shame. Everything became marred including God’s gift of love and sex.
God isn’t afraid to address this issue, like some preachers and churches are. The tragedy is that if we don’t talk about what the Bible has to say about these matters then the vacuum is filled by the world voice, MTV, TV Sitcoms and Popular media, where there is little respect for God’s and his word.
Sex and Love are gifts by God, but they have been perverted and it’s beauty and power has been stolen by the devil and made into something ugly and destructive.
Within the pages of scripture you have various sexual sins being committed, polygamy, love triangles, disobedient marriages between unbelievers and believers. Homosexuality, incest, loveless marriages, divorces, rape, son sleeping with stepmother, adultery, false rape allegations, etc. Day Time Soap Operas have nothing on scripture.
In the New Testament the word “Porneia” is translated sexual immorality, this covers everything regarding sexual sin.
When it comes to sexual sin there is nothing new under the Sun, the problem is as old as Eden.
The problem of sexual sins, including premarital sex, adultery, porn, rape and sex slavery continue unabated.
And as scripture reveals, it leads to sadness, suffering and ultimately death.
But this is not what God intended.
Premarital Sex-The numbers have been increasing, teens and young adults have been increasing as they engage in this sexual sin.
Technology has even got involved, sexting, sending inappropriate pictures/message to each other via phone and social sites such as Face book and My Space. Twitter experiences, links to porn sites.
I won’t address all of these mediums, as the list is too long and I want to deal with principles. Root issues instead of fruits.
Christians who won’t have intercourse but think heavy petting or oral sex are acceptable alternatives, your wrong, anything involving your private genitalia is sex and outside of marriage is sin.
Pornography-The purpose of porn is lust. The simple act of desiring someone’s body in itself is not sinful, but which body are you lusting after, if it is your spouse, then you’re enjoying a Song of Solomon Holy experience.
If the person you’re lusting after is not your spouse, then you’re sinning.
It was God who dressed our ancestors, and only sinners undress themselves for purposes that do not glorify God.
Again I am teaching principles and not simply telling you not to have the internet, TV, cable etc. With the plethora of sources for Porn and lust that the church can’t have enough standards to prevent exposure to it.
You have to want to obey the principle of being pure and Holy, which will keep your appetites in check. They that hunger and thirst for righteousness shall be filled.
You will inevitably adopt the morality of the programs, movies, books, magazines, music, Internet sites and conversations you participate in. GIGO Garbage in, garbage out; Godliness in, godliness out.
The cognitive is basic to the behavioral you become what you choose to feed your mind on.
Sow a thought, reap an action.
Sow an action, reap a habit.
Sow a habit, reap a character.
Sow a character, reap a destiny.
How to Break Free and Stay Free From Sexual Sin:
1. Understand why your body craves sinful desires.
Because it brings pleasure, it releases chemicals in your brain and body that bring about feelings of intense pleasure. Some of the same experiences are the same as high of illegal drugs.
People outside of healthy relationships can become addicted to the act itself rather than people in relationship.
In the context of marriage then becomes the glue for oneness, the coming together. Outside of marriage it is destructive.
2. See sex as potentially false and demonic religion
Remember potentially, fire in the appropriate place and use, brings warmth, cooks my food, burns my waste. But taken out and let loose, can kill and destroy, wrecking havoc on humanity.
Scriptures teaches that we either worship the Creator and enjoy his creation or they worship the creation as God.
Romans 1:24-25 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
In Christianity there 3 major branches, Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox.
In the religion of sex there are 3 Branches Straight, Gay or Bi-sexual.
And just like Churches they have meeting places, websites, social networks, chat rooms and classified ads, bars and strip clubs.
Perversion is a kind of worship. But they have replaced the Creator with the creature.
Again God designed sex and beautiful, a picture of oneness with him.
Someone said this, “The young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.”
But I would add He won’t find him there.
3. See Sex as an Act of Worship
Paul in
Romans 12:1 says that worship means offering our bodies to God.
In
1 Corinthians 10:7 And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;
In other words what we do with out bodies is a spiritual thing. When we disregard God in what we do with our bodies it’s Idolatry.
1 Corinthians 6:13-20
4. Take Sexual Sin as seriously as God does
I Corinthians 6:9-10 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[a] nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
God takes the sexual sin of his people so seriously that those enslaved to them will die in their sins and wake up in Hell.
Now the naked person you’re lusting after may be hot, but not that Hot.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
• Sexual Purity is the will of God
• You’re responsible for your vessel (body)
• Don’t defraud your brothers and sisters (dressing immodestly, behaviors, flirting)
• God will judge you
• This is serious, if you reject this teaching your reject God.
The way out of sexual sin is not condemnation, guilt or shame, but being controlled by the Holy Spirit.
Gal. 5:16-Walk in the Spirit and you won’t fulfill the lusts of the flesh!
Someone being controlled by the Spirit will have a lessened appetite for the flesh and an increased appetite for the things of God.
Sexual Sin is an inside job, before you ever sin with your body; you sin with your heart.
Matthew 5:27-28 “You have heard that it was said to those of old,’ You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Mark 7:15 There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man.
Your future can be accurately predicted by what you allow your mind (heart) to dwell on. Sinful actions don't come out of nowhere they are the cumulative product of little moral compromises made over time, which ultimately culminate in ungodly behavior.
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